“The Adler School Leads the Way in Army Clinical Psychology Scholarships (PRWeb via Yahoo! News)” plus 3 more |
- The Adler School Leads the Way in Army Clinical Psychology Scholarships (PRWeb via Yahoo! News)
- Cognitive Psychology Explains Bruins' Lack of Response to Matt Cooke's Hit on Marc Savard (New England Sports Network)
- Sid Meier talks player psychology and the year of Civilization (Gamers.com)
- Today's the day to adjust to the clock change (WRGB Albany)
| The Adler School Leads the Way in Army Clinical Psychology Scholarships (PRWeb via Yahoo! News) Posted: 15 Mar 2010 12:01 AM PDT The U.S. Army has awarded three of its 20 annual psychology scholarships to Adler School of Professional Psychology doctoral students, giving the Adler School more than any other in the country. Chicago, Illinois (PRWEB) March 15, 2010 -- The U.S. Army has awarded three of its 20 annual psychology scholarships to Adler School of Professional Psychology doctoral students, giving the Adler School more than any other in the country. The opportunity to help soldiers and veterans - an overlooked and underserved patient population - fits well with the School's mission to promote social justice and produce socially responsible graduates. Because the Adler School offers an advanced accredited program in treating addiction and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) - specialty training that is not widely available - the program is a good fit for students who will serve soldiers and veterans. Many Adler School students who were not Army scholarship recipients have been hired by the Veteran's Administration after graduation due to the specialty training. The F. Edward Hebert Armed Forces Health Professions Scholarship Program (HPSP) covers full tuition and books, as well as a monthly allowance. After graduation from the Adler School, the scholarship recipients will intern at an Army medical facility and serve in the Army. "This is an excellent opportunity for these students, who will get post-graduate training at top-notch medical facilities," said Joseph Troiani, Ph.D., coordinator of the School's Substance Abuse Program, and a commander in the U.S. Navy Reserves. "Dealing with the psychological casualties of war is as critical as dealing with the physical injuries. And, in terms of psychology, one of most neglected populations is veterans, who are disproportionally represented among the homeless." Dr. Troiani advises the Military Psychology student organization at the School, which brings in speakers to discuss how to address psychological issues that affect soldiers and veterans. Scholarship recipients Kathryn Cline, David Hardley and Tom Patterson currently are students in the Adler School's Doctor of Psychology in Clinical Psychology (Psy.D.) program. They join last year's Army scholarship recipients Andre Chaplin, Michael Brennan and Madina Boyd, who also are in the Psy.D. program. Two other Adler School Psy.D. students, Liliana Burciaga and Vanessa Haig, have been named to this year's alternate list. "It's a highly competitive selection process, so it's a rare honor for a school to have this many student recipients in one program and is a testament to the high standards of ethical leadership and academic excellence at the Adler School," said Michael J. Rakow, U.S. Army Captain and Commander of the U.S. Army Chicago Medical Recruiting Company. "Adler seeks to instill ethical and moral compassion in students, who are very service-oriented, which fits very well with Army values." The scholarship recipients are commissioned as second lieutenants in the U.S. Army Reserve while in school and promoted to captains upon entry onto active duty for internship. After graduating from the School and completing their internship training, the students will be required to serve in the active Army as clinical psychologists for three years from their date of licensure. They will be members of the Army Health Care Team, whose mission is to support America's Army, at home and abroad. The Army Health Care Team serves three million beneficiaries. "They are aware of the possibility of being deployed overseas, which for many students is the highlight of their time in the military," said Dr. Troiani. "They work hand in hand with medical personnel and nurses and work with soldiers on the frontlines. They also could easily find themselves providing psychological support as part of humanitarian efforts, such as those in Haiti." ### The Adler School of Professional Psychology Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
| Posted: 15 Mar 2010 02:47 PM PDT Cognitive Psychology Explains Bruins' Lack of Response to Matt Cooke's Hit on Marc Savard
Ever hear of how tennis players who keep slamming their serves into the net overcome their fault? By placing a ball cart on the other side of the net, for example, and trying to hit the cart on their serves. That is how they re-train the mind to aim over the net in order to re-train the body to do just that. I bring this up in conjunction with a different cognitive psychology study that relates to the Matt Cooke incident. After Cooke's hit on Boston's Marc Savard, NESN analysts Mike Milbury and Andy Brickley discussed on W.B. Mason Bruins Face-Off Live why there was no aggressive, immediate response from the Bruins. Brickley pointed out that in talking to players, coaches and other observers after the game, there seemed to be no one who actually saw the hit or could remember the details of that moment without video replay, which could ultimately explain the lack of an aggressive response. Intrigued by the fact that no one really "saw" the hit, I contacted Saul Kassin, a psychology professor at Williams College. He directed me toward a study that shows that it is indeed very possible and very likely that such was the case. Give this a try before reading on. The concept of that YouTube video relates to a Harvard University study from 1999 which researched "inattentional blindness for dynamic events." It describes significant findings for a person's inability to perceive an unexpected object in the midst of a dynamic event. To put it simply, we're not aware of things that happen right in front of our eyes if we're not looking out for them, no matter how jarring those things may be. And even if we do see it, it's unlikely that we remember it correctly. Here's an excerpt from the study:Both change blindness and inattentional blindness show that attention plays a critical role in perception and in representation. Without attention, we often do not see unanticipated events, and even with attention, we cannot encode and retain all the details of what we see. Many needed television replay to see what happened on the Cooke hit, but replays were not shown inside the arena. Now, we all know what happened, after seeing it over and over again -- and we also know just how awful the hit was. But for many of those players on the ice at the time, the event was defined only as a devastating injury to a valuable teammate -- perhaps without knowledge of exactly what caused it. Special thanks to Professor Kassin for taking the time to point me toward the relevant study, and the YouTube link to go along with it. Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
| Sid Meier talks player psychology and the year of Civilization (Gamers.com) Posted: 14 Mar 2010 11:20 PM PDT
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The "father of computer gaming" gave the keynote at GDC 2010 this past week, and while we really hoped he would tell us a lot about the upcoming Facebook version of Civilization, it got only the barest of mentions during the hour-plus talk. Instead, Meier shared wisdom with the gathered crowd, talking about the lessons he'd learned in player psychology over his long and storied career in game design. First, he talked about what he called the "Winner's Paradox" -- "if you've played Civilization," he said, "you're an egomaniac," since anyone crazy enough to think that they can actually "build a civ to stand the test of time," as it says on the game box, must be pretty full of themselves. And because of that, Meier says his players always believe that if they don't win for whatever reason, fate or the random number generator or the crappy AI must be out to get them. As a result, his policy has become to let the player win -- the threat of punishment is enough to keep it interesting, but in the end, the player should win the game.
He also talked about the "unholy alliance" between players and developers -- not only is the relationship beneficial for both parties (players offer their money, developers offer their time and talent), but it's also one of "mutually-assured destruction," as players can break contact with (or even just belief in) the game anytime they feel it's not fun any more, and developers can "really mess up the game, too." Everything in the game, said Meier, should be designed with an eye towards this alliance -- the AI should live to serve the player, the graphics and gameplay should engage imagination, and even options screens and load/save settings should be developed with an eye towards preserving the relationship.
Civilization Network was mentioned under a section Meier called "my bad" -- along with the original ideas to make Civ real-time (whoops) and make the tech path random, he said that the CN team had considered letting players give gold to each other on Facebook, but during playtesting, found that players never actually did. He did say that the game is deep into testing currently, and that it will allow co-op, singleplayer, and competitive gameplay, and that it will be interesting whether players play for just "a little time a day" or more than that. At the end of the talk, in reply to a question about where he saw gaming going, Meier declared that "this is the year of Civilization!" With CN coming soon and Civ V due out this fall, we can't wait to send our Settlers out into the world.
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| Today's the day to adjust to the clock change (WRGB Albany) Posted: 15 Mar 2010 01:41 PM PDT ITHACA, N.Y. -- A psychology professor at New York's Cornell University says it's a good day for a nap. James Maas says the one-hour loss of sleep at the start of daylight saving time can bring a lack of focus. He says it usually takes about four or five days for the body's sleep clock to adjust. Maas says he invented the term "power nap" -- and he says the perfect nap would last no more than 15 minutes, as long as it doesn't send you into a deep sleep, which makes you groggy when you wake up. Another suggestion for coping with the time change is to expose yourself to light as soon as you wake up. (Copyright 2010 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.) Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
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